Steam Workshop - How to trace and find files

The Steam workshop is pretty great when it works , However you do get issue every now and then. There are multiple reasons as to why you would want to see what's what on your Hard drive , whether you've got orphaned files taking up space or you want to reverse engineer a mod. The problem with the workshop is that once files are on your drive they only use a numerical id. In this vid I show you how easy it is the Identify which games and Mods you have installed.

As mentioned the two links you'll need are as follows :

Steam workshop items

[ChunkyPuddin]

Exactly what I needed. Thanks for the ridiculously straightforward and concise tutorial.

[Strumstar]

Excellent tutorial. Short and to the point. Found what I needed.

[Thegreatercheese]

YT gives me a tutorial that's exactly what I needed for once, thanks very much.

[carlosmartos]

Thanks a bunch ! Helped me a lot. Steam recently blocked all workshop direct downloads. I have the in a specific folder cos I rename and modify them often. Now I know how to get the latest version while keeping my personal folder structure. Excellent tutorial of something not complicated but not so easy to explain.

[luggilu]

genius. thank you so much, been trying to find out which mods took up 71GB of space, you saved me a massive headache. also good video. no nonesense, just straight to the point.

[stmf]

This is the stuff I've been looking for. You are a life saver. Appreciate your help buddy

[vouvusbovus]

This was really helpful. especially compared to the other youtubers guides.

[TheHuTao.]

Thank god for this tutorial, I have like 60 mods and with windows 11 not showing the file thumbnails I got hella frustrated. Thanks, I could easily find it with the ID.

[amether]

came for tutorial, stayed for relaxing voice, its so good

[LunaaDoors]

YOU ARE THE BEST YOUTUBER I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND VIDS FOR THIS AND NONE HELPED ME BUT THANK YOU SO

[alangriffin]

This is great! Thank you. I have gotten more interested in modding by starting with CKIII save file editing, and I'd like to try my hand at first modding a mod, them trying one from scratch.

[Homienel]

Thank you for this vid. It helped a lot !

[chores]

Thank you for this guide, my black ops 3 was showing 155!! Gbs of workshop maps and I forgot to unsubscribe from the maps I used to have and was losing storage from nothing. I deleted all of them

[Askime]

i accidentally unsibscribed from like 50 workshop files and i found the IDs but do i really need to go through all these individually and resubscribe to them? or is there a easier way

[PaulPendeho]

This is exactly what I needed felt so good when I found the file. Thank you!

[JuliJuanJuan]

This is a good totorial but im having an issue trying to find L4D2. I put the numbers that I think are L4D2 and SteamDB says its an unknown app. None of the workshop items in the folder come up on steam either.

[MrHeadshot]

so lets say i had a big mod thats its still on my hdd and then i decided to move it on my main workshop how would it work and detect the mod

[olivermm]

man i love you cuz of that tip now i manage do turn these files into a game that i still havent got DLCs for a game and i can fianly enjoyy thanks meeen

[niceto_meet_you]

Does anyone have any idea where workshop items for LFD2 are? There isn’t a folder for them and I have yet to find them

[eujoxqc]

how do i make it so boii client gets them directly for black ops 3 i cant get any help on this the newer videos are trash and not wat i want it should be able to go to my bo3 right away please help